Raymond Queneau Quotes
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.
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Mark just doesn't make mistakes. If you watch him, he's mistake-free.
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My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
